To prepare for writing her article, the author of "African Americans in Colonial Williamsburg" studied the history of the Williamsburg. She got her information and organized it before she could write her book. A good way to organize material is to put it in an outline. For this project, take the main ideas from each paragraph from the article and arrange them to support the main idea of the whole passage. Use a roman numeral (I, II, III, IV) for each main idea. Place the supporting details beneath the main ideas next to upper-case letters. Take a look at the following example: